Selling the Vision for Learning


Working in teams of 2-4 people your task is to come up with a strategic plan or proposal for a Digital Learning Environment at your school. This plan will be 'pitched' in narrative style as well as detailed on a wiki.

Framing the task.....consider:

  • Connected learning - use of PLNs for all learners
  • Digital citizenship - what does this look like, how is it fostered?
  • Collaborative learning - toolkit, pedagogy
  • Creativity - multimedia products, authentic assessment, aligned with standards

Essential questions:

  • What does a digital learning environment look like?
  • How is it supported? (infrastructure, policies) (professional development, shifting the mindset)
  • What are the teacher and student expectations while in this DLE - (to be connected learners, to be collaborators and co-creators, to be effective digital citizens......what else??)

Some ideas to consider tackling:

(time is short and we want a finished outcome!)
  • Digital citizenship across the school or in a section of the school
  • A vision for connected and collaborative learning using 1:1 computing (across the school or in a section)
  • Embedding global collaborative projects across the school or into a grade/grade level
  • Introducing digital portfolios and/or blogging across the curriculum
  • Providing a strategy for teachers to become connected (PLN) and collaborative (cross-classroom/interdisciplinary/global)
  • Planning the shift in mindset at your school - 21st century learning meetings

Further examples and ideas:

- E-Learning for Life - vision proposed to Qatar Academy 2007
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- 21st Century Learners - weekend focus sessions at Qatar Academy 2007
- 21st Century Learning - The vision at Qatar Academy, June 2009
- Digital Learning and 1:1 at Qatar Academy
- BISS Digital Learning Environment - Strategic goals and actions 2011-13
- Flat Classroom portal and Meet the Flat Classroom (online information meeting, August 2011)
- Flat Classrooms Ning - network for educators doing global collaboration

Policies and Guidelines

- E-Learning for Life, Qatar Academy
- Beijing BISS International School

Media

21st Century Learners Create the Future


A Vision for 21st Century Learning